On 27/11/2007, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. Banging on and on and on and on about the same tired, laboured point is > wrong - and simply blindly quoting Richard Stallman doesn't make it any more > likely to have people agree with your narrow viewpoint. You are Dave > Crossland in a different hat, and I claim my five pounds.
This is where our opinions diverge. I, obviously, have some strong view points on freedom and politics. I join /discussion/ groups so that I can /discuss/ the issues that interest me. When a /discussion/ starts that involves freedom or politics I find that I like to join in the /discussion/ by weighing in with my opinion. That, after all, is the point of a /discussion/ list. I only /discuss/ things that interest me when there is direct relevance to the /discussion/ at hand. If a newbie asks "how can I get foo driver to work with linux" you won't find me correcting his use of the word "linux" to include "gnu" but you will find me correcting someone who says "tescos should sell and market linux pcs." See the difference? When someone accuses me of "banging on" about something really they are saying "I have heard your opinion before, don't like it and can't be bothered discussing it." To which I have two suggestions: 1) Leave the /discussion/ list you're on. 2) Move to the next message, trash the message and move on. 3) Filter all email with "freedom" in the body into /dev/null and be done with it. Stop throwing you're weight around because you can't be bothered /discussing/ something on a /discussion/ list. -- Noah Slater <http://www.bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
